You can’t change the past, but you can keep it from disappearing.
By supporting the Hadzabe Media Center, you’re helping a new generation preserve their culture and reclaim their voice.
Why Your Support Matters
The Hadzabe Media Center is a space where we learn to how to use cameras, sound equipment and effective digital storytelling techniques to preserve our heritage and share our knowledge with the world.
Every donation, partnership, or shared story brings us closer to keeping our language, songs, and traditions alive for the next generation.
How Your Support Helps
Through your generous support we get the right tools to preserve our wisdom and knowledge in digital formats that can last longer, be shared with the world and be used with the next generation.
We get tools like cameras, audio equipment, more storytelling mentorship opportunities and the creative freedom to tell our own stories before they are lost forever.
The 3 Years Plan
Install windows, doors, furnishings and fixtures.
Install solar power, provide cameras, set up recording studio, establish editing workstations.
Hire Hadza media center manager.
Finish, Equip and Staff the Media Center
Provide 6 hands-on workshops yearly for 5-10 mentees at a time covering photography, videography, and music production.
Screen the finished works to the community and spark discussions and feedback.
Digital Storytelling Workshops
Give ongoing technical and creative support for Hadza creatives to complete and share their own stories with the Hadza community and globally.
Mentorship & Support
The Ask
Finishing Media Center & Equipment Funding
$ 500,000
Fixtures and furnishing.
Fully solar powered system.
2x media editing stations.
1x media editing stations.
Data storage systems.
Photo printers.
Backup generator.
Full-time Hadzabe Media Center manager (12 months salary).
Training Grant
$ 42,000/year
Mentoring 45 Hadzabe community members on media production.
6 mentorship programs/year (Photography, Filmmaking, Music Production).
Expedition expenses.
Camp equipment (portable power units, water filters, tents, production tables and chairs).
2x trained program mentors.
Targeted Screenings & Exhibition
$ 3,000
Create a travelling photography exhibition and community cinema to show the work to Hadzabe community members in different camps, sparking important discussions.
Help amplify Hadzabe-produced content to worldwide audiences and get support for issues they face.
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BECOMING A SPONSOR
Sponsors help our emerging storytellers get trainings, protect our culture, and share our stories with the world. Contact us to explore sponsorship options.
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BECOME A MEDIA CENTER PARTNER
We invite partners who share our commitment to ethical storytelling and cultural preservation. Together, we can create projects that uplift Hadzabe voices. Connect with us to begin a partnership.
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IN-KIND DONATION
We welcome in-kind support that strengthens our work in preserving and sharing Hadzabe stories. Equipment, skills, and services help us continue our mission. Please reach out if you would like to contribute.
